Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font previewer requirements

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/2/10 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net: A good static previewer: Ed Trager's upcoming Fontaine ought to be helpful here :-) ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com

Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The math script, aka MATH table, is a MS extension to OpenType. MS has not yet officially submitted any documentation for these math layout extensions -- and they are quite extensive -- not even in the draft 1.5/1.6 OpenType spec. Despite this, it

Re: Asana-Math: close but no cigar

2008-08-13 Thread Dave Crossland
, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/8/13 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MS has not yet officially submitted any documentation for these math layout extensions AIUI, the MATH table in Cambria is developed specifically for Cambria and will not be a 100% fit for other fonts

Re: TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

2008-07-30 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/30 Tom spot Callaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/30 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Isn't the user bound by most restrictive license in the package, that is pure GPL? Yes, that is true, but: A) The package is then distributable B) The only remaining issue is to sell URW on the

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: — We should not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories. TEX should use system fonts directly. XeTeX can do that. TeX probably NEVER will because that

Re: Are we really going to require fonts to be built from sources by Fedora packagers? [Was: Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?]

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: non-free tools like FontLab ... free-beer tools like Adobe FDK That a proprietary program is distributed at zero price is not important; that it is proprietary is what matters :-) I think we'll try to bump the fontforge version in fedora-devel to

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, in that case Fedora is in trouble already. The gyre OpenType fonts are already shipped by Fedora in a TeXLive package, just not used by pango! TeXLive has been stripping out non-free fonts from other TeX distributions, so perhaps those guys

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I suspect that their fonts are based on the visual designs, but not raw data of the URW fonts, otherwise GUST would be bound by the GPL, I think the GUST guys have infringed the GPL. Not 100% sure, but I

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. -- Regards, Dave ___

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. Wow! This is really great news Gustavo! :-) [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way No problem with that at all :-)

Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a good suffix (maybe iced as Nicolas propose), anyone of you have an lightning idea ? Why not use a build of FF from the same time the source files were published? --

Re: Font autoinstallation meeting

2008-06-09 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/6/6 Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lets meet Monday June 9th 17:00 UTC in ##fonts on freenode to discuss font autoinstallation in Fedora. Are the logs posted on the web? :-) -- Regards, Dave I support www.gnuherds.org - democratic free software jobs

Re: Updates of liberation-fonts.

2008-05-17 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/5/9 Caius Carlos Chance [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: You're welcome to use this list as long as you want. It's not as if it's high traffic and everyone on it should be interested in Liberation progress anyway. I have emailed to admin of this mailing list server for a new

Re: Bunch of new Fonts added to wishlist

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, I haven't done any Fedora packaging before, but I would be happy to help with this effort. I am involved in the Open Font Library and we have collected a list of free fonts on our wiki, http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Existing_Free_Fonts I hope that the OFLB infrastructure will eventually